Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern a Jewish historian prays the Kadish inside the abandoned synagogue in Bolekhiv a regional city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine which was once home to a large Jewish community. During the Holocaust, the Jewish community was annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators. Only 48 of Bolekhiv's Jews were known to have survived the war.

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